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autum6758
autum6758

So i am graduating in december. I don't know what i am going to do once i actually have my degree. I have to apply for internship and im scared and anxious. I feel like everything is moving to fast but i want to finish school. 

peterthegreat
peterthegreat
To have anxiety about work is normal. To be successful in anything. One must know how to manage their fear and stress. Read more about fear and stress. There are some good books about how navy seals manage their fear and stress when they are doing operations. I know how is feels. I have been there. We fear the unknow. Yes is going have some unpleasent things will happen.
Find a career coach to help you. Can you go to your school councilor to help you?
peterthegreat
peterthegreat
Or you can watch videos about fear and stress ,career on Youtube.
southernchronicles
southernchronicles
It’s totally okay to feel overwhelmed — finishing school and figuring out what’s next is a lot. Just take it one step at a time. You don’t need all the answers right now. Pace yourself; remember, you’ve got a beautiful story to write.
arfie
arfie
i will hold your anxiety about finishing school as proof that you are both intelligent and paying attention. it's a HUGE step, even with a degree. that degree is nothing more than a building block. now to decide which building to put that block into.

steadying support while you work out those gory details. you got this.
hasty_05
hasty_05
Two things that typically cause people to have anxiety of some sort. Both finishing college and having to do an internship cause anxiety so this is normal. And internships kinda suck - in my profession they are mostly unpaid and slave labor and I had to do 2 -- 500 hour ones for my master's degree. I was treated well at one and treated awful at another. I learned about work places though. I learned about sucky coworkers or organizations. I was older though and had worked at many places with sucky people and sucky organizations. I really saw it differently though at my internships. When I was paid at a real job, it felt different than as a slave intern. You will be okay, you will do well, give yourself some self-compassion for all this new to you stuff that will be happening soon. And don't expect your internship to be grand and exciting, just take it as another step and one day at a time. Just take it without hoping they hire you, just take it as something you have to get through and learn something from it hopefully. I learned social workers are racist, ageist, and downright nasty to their coworkers at times. That idealism fell away, LOL.
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